348 Wright, Early Records of the Carolina Paroquet. LJuly 



In another quarter (Louisiana), the memoirs of M. Dumont 

 (1753) finds ^ "The parroquets are very common. . . ., where they 

 are about the size of a pigeon and of one color decidedly green. 

 The head is very large, and the beak is like all the other birds of 

 their sort, except it is bordered on both sides entirely to the top 

 of the head by a sort of bow of yellowish color mixed with a little 

 very brilliant red plume, less red in the females than the males. 

 These birds fly ordinarily in flocks of eighteen or twenty ; and when 

 they pass in rapid flight, they utter screams loud enough to deafen 

 the ears. When they are shot and eaten, the flesh is dark. When 

 they are eating the seed of those appe mace of which I have spoken 

 and of which I have said that they are very fond, if after having 

 killed them one gives the refuse to cats, it kills them. "In the 

 Ohio River region, John Jennings in his "Journal from Fort Pitt 

 to Fort Chartes in the Illinois Country"- on March 13, 1766, 

 "saw several Parrotkites" at Little Tottery Creek; the day 

 following at Scioto River, "saw some parotkites"; on great 

 Mineami River, "saw several flocks of Parrotkites"; and lastly, 

 on the Mississippi just above the Ohio River's mouth, recorded 

 the same. In 1766-1768 Carver finds ^ "Parrots" in the interior 

 parts of North America. In 1772-1773 Rev. David Jones says^ 

 that as you approach the Ohio River region from the east, "after 

 you go near the Great Kanawha, large flocks of small green parrots 

 are to be seen." 



"The Parroquet of Louisiana," M. LePage DuPratz thinks* 

 " is not quite so large as those that are usually brought to France. 

 Its plumage is usually of a fine sea-green, with a pale rose-coloured 

 spot upon the crown, which brightens into red towards the beak, 

 and fades off into green towards the body. It is, with difficulty 

 that it learns to speak, and even then it rarely practices it, re- 

 sembling in this the natives themselves, who speak little. As a 

 silent parrot would never make its fortune among our French 



1 Memoires Historiques Sur La Louisiane. Paris, 1753, Tome Premier, p. 87. 



2 Pemi. Mag. of Hist, and Biography. Vol. 31, 1907, pp. 146, 147, 148, 152. 



2 Carver, J. Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 

 1766, 1767, and 1768. London, 1778, p. 466. 



* Jones, Horatio G. Journal of Rev. David Jones. In Cincinnati Miscellany,, 

 by Chas. Cist. Vol. II, p. 232. 



« DuPratz, M. Le Page. The History of Louisiana. London edit. 1774, p. 

 278. 



